Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Wednesday


It's BIG TRASH DAY!

18 degrees and there's light snow falling.

The forecast had been for 1 - 3", overnight.


The way clouds rolled in over Pleasant Valley, yesterday afternoon (as seen from S. Brothertown) it looked as if we'd get 1 - 3 feet! I just measured 3" on my front porch and steps. (Hardly the best place to take a measurement, but that's as far as I'm going right now!)

  • Today: Scattered flurries or a few squalls. Windy with blowing and drifting snow. Becoming bitter cold. Temps falling from the upper teens in the morning to upper single digits by afternoon.
  • Tonight: Partly cloudy and frigid with a chance of a flurry. Low around -5, but as cold as -10 to -15 in the North Country.
  • Thursday: Sun and clouds, with a chance of snow showers late in the day. Bitter cold. High: 9, Low: -3

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Missy Brouillette just sent me this great picture! She and Wayne and the kids spent ten days in sunny Florida, visiting her family, and came back in time to play in the snow!

X-C Skiers are out, following field trails, waiting for deeper snow to make the woodland trails easier to manage. Stan Dziekonski told me that Ann and Robin Kinnel (his neighbors) told him that there's a new X-C trail that starts just behind Glen House and connects Root Glen with the Kirkland Glen. Welcome news, because it's a real ski trail: a lot less steep (and scary) than the walking paths.

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When I posted this picture of the ornamental ironwork on the tower of SouthGate Ministries, a day or two ago, it reminded me to look and see if it were the same pattern as that in Jeff Reynold's photograph of the "pink house" East of Sherburne:





It isn't.


Nor is it identical to that on Mrs. Tonetti's home in Sangerfield ........


.... or the old Welsh Church that is now the home of the Waterville Historical Society. But they probably all came from the same place: a foundry located in the old C&H building (now Pumilia's Pizza Dough) on Route 315. Senior historians of the 1960s and 70s bemoaned the fact that one of the former owners of the property had seen fit to burn all of the drawings and destroy the moulds of the scores of ornamental castings that had been made there in the late 19th century and decorated so many elegant buildings throughout this part of New York.

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